Denckla Christy A, Consedine Nathan S, Bornstein Robert F
T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Self Identity. 2017;16(4):373-383. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2016.1264464. Epub 2016 Dec 26.
Depression is highly prevalent among college students and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Dependency is among the known personality traits that predict an elevated risk for depression. Prior research has focused on the depressogenic role of self-critical thoughts among destructive overdependent (DO) individuals but has not considered other internal processes (such as self-compassion) that might influence mental health. The current report examined whether self-compassion had either moderating or mediating effects on the links between dependency and depression in college students. In a cross-sectional study, 85 college students completed measures of dependency, self-compassion, and depressive symptoms. Analyses suggested that self-compassion mediated both the effect of DO on depressive symptoms and the effect of healthy dependency (HD) on lower depressive symptoms; self-compassion did not moderate links between dependency and depressive symptoms. Our exploratory findings suggest that positive self-schema (in the form of self-compassion) may contribute to the downstream mental health effects of both adaptive HD and maladaptive DO.
抑郁症在大学生中非常普遍，且与显著的发病率和死亡率相关。依赖是已知的预测抑郁症风险升高的人格特质之一。先前的研究集中在自我批判思维在具有破坏性的过度依赖（DO）个体中产生抑郁的作用上，但没有考虑可能影响心理健康的其他内部过程（如自我同情）。本报告研究了自我同情在大学生依赖与抑郁之间的联系中是否具有调节或中介作用。在一项横断面研究中，85名大学生完成了关于依赖、自我同情和抑郁症状的测量。分析表明，自我同情介导了DO对抑郁症状的影响以及健康依赖（HD）对较低抑郁症状的影响；自我同情并未调节依赖与抑郁症状之间的联系。我们的探索性研究结果表明，积极的自我模式（以自我同情的形式）可能有助于适应性HD和适应不良DO对下游心理健康产生影响。
